Linux kernel 5.1-rc3 was released yesterday. Linus Tovalds writes, "The rc3
release is bigger than normal, which is obviously never
anything I want to see, but at the same time it's early enough in the
rc series that it's not something I really worry about. Yet.
And while it's bigger, nothing really unusual stands out. The single
biggest patch in there (by far - it's in fact about a third of the
whole rc3 patch) is just removal of the mt7621-eth staging driver,
which is because the regular mediatek ethernet driver now handles that
hardware."

Gmail turns 15 today! See the Google
Blog for details on new features: Smart Compose is getting smarter, and
you now can schedule when emails are delivered to someone's mailbox.

UbuntuMATE 18.04 Beta 1 for Raspberry Pi has been released. Martin
Wimpress writes that the beta is available for "Raspberry Pi Model B 2, 3 and
3+, with separate images for armhf (ARMv7 32-bit) and arm64 (ARMv8 64-bit).
We have done what we can to optimise the builds for the Raspberry Pi
without sacrificing the full desktop environment Ubuntu MATE provides on
PC". High-level features include the Ubuntu kernel ("fully maintained by
the Ubuntu Kernel and Security teams"), automatic online filesystem
expansion, Ethernet and WiFi, Bluetooth, support for USB booting and much
more. Go here to download.

Sabayon 19.03 was released
yesterday. New features of the Gentoo-based distro include a new build infrastructure, full disk
encryption support, support for 32-bit UEFI, Linux kernel 4.20, Python 3
and more. In addition, the project is working on a completely new wiki. You can Sabayon it
from here.

Debian recently
announced it received a $300,000 donation from
Handshake. This contribution will "help
Debian to continue the hardware replacement plan designed by the Debian
System Administrators, renewing servers and other hardware components and
thus making the development and community infrastructure of the Project
more reliable."

Jill Franklin is an editorial professional with more than 17 years experience in technical and scientific publishing, both print and digital. As Executive Editor of Linux Journal, she wrangles writers, develops content, manages projects, meets deadlines and makes sentences sparkle. She also was Managing Editor for TUX and Embedded Linux Journal, and the book Linux in the Workplace. Before entering the Linux and open-source realm, she was Managing Editor of several scientific and scholarly journals, including Veterinary Pathology,The Journal of Mammalogy, Toxicologic Pathology and The Journal of Scientific Exploration. In a previous life, she taught English literature and composition, managed a bookstore and tended bar. When she’s not bugging writers about deadlines or editing copy, she throws pots, gardens and reads. You can contact Jill via e-mail, [email protected]